About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...

Earthquakes and seismic activity often happen with sudden movements underground with tectonic plates. Seismographs are used by scientists to measure the time, location and strength of an earthquake.

(WHTM) – Earthquakes are large seismic events that occur when tectonic plates manage to move under, over or slide past each other, sending energy in waves across the Earth’s crust. But how are ...

SOMONAUK - At 2:53 A.M. a 3.4 magnitude earthquake, originating about 1.2 miles northwest from the Village of Somonauk, shook communities in south Dekalb county. On their earthquake intensity scale, ...

On the basis of such hard-learned lessons, a new quake warning system was introduced. Dubbed the “subsequent earthquake ...

A minor, 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

A minor, 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological ...

Hazard maps released earlier this year found Long Island, along with most of New York State, faced a small but measurable risk of a damaging earthquake nearly the strength of the one that hit the ...

Tsunami alert lifted after 6.9-magnitude tremor prompts evacuations along Pacific coast - Details on damage and injuries from ...